Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

Terence McKenna

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• Maturity
• Manipulation
• Psychedelic
• Discovering
• Exploring
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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Culture
  • City
  • Walking

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Live
  • Power
  • Nature

• I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • True
  • Dream

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Amazing

• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Words

• There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Art
  • Book
  • History

• Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Diversity

• Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• Values are the foundation of a company. Culture is the manifestation of values - the day to day actions and behavior. Adapt tactical cultural behavior that helps you execute on your values.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Culture

• The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Culture

• For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Past
  • Culture

• I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Culture
  • Opportunity

• I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Different
  • Kids
  • History

• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Culture
  • Should
  • Benefits

• Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • World
  • Culture
  • Memories

• I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • High

• I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Working
  • Answer
  • Phone

• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Maturity
  • Manipulation